Category Archives: photographs of historic building and sites in the five boroughs of New York City

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Ship Graveyard

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

Coney Island Creek Ship Graveyard

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Rockaway Then and Now

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

Mott Ave. and B22 St. Far Rockaway, NYC1940 2012  

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Inwood Hill Park and…..

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

…the only salt marsh left in Manhattan more pix and history to follow……  

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odds & ends; Battery Park

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Although it’s only 21 acres, Battery Park contains dozens of monuments and memorials, here are a few: The Korean War Veterans Memorial designed by Mac Adams was installed in 1991. The piece also functions as a sundial, every July 27 … Continue reading →

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Art Deco Public Works

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Bas-relief friezes on the Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant opened in 1939

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Ft.Greene Park; almost Spring

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

It may officially still be Winter, but don’t tell that to the flowers…. Ft.Greene Park was established as Brooklyn’s first park in 1847 and is named after a Revolutionary War era fort that was built in 1776 under the supervision … Continue reading →

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When Schools Mattered

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

As superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1922, C.B.J Snyder designed close to 350 schools, plus numerous additions and other school improvements. Snyder put up 5, 10, sometimes 15 buildings a year, ranging from giants like Erasmus, Curtis and … Continue reading →

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odds & ends; The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Antonio Meucci, rarely mentioned in history books, is considered to be the true inventor of the telephone.  Meucci filed for a preliminary patent application for his ”teletrofono” in 1871 but was hampered by a lack of funds and command of the  … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn Gothic; Wallabout

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

The neighborhood of Wallabout was recently designated as a landmark district largely because it contains  one of the greatest concentration of remaining pre-Civil War wood-frame houses in NYC. Amongst the well maintained houses on Vanderbilt Avenue, just south of the … Continue reading →

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Riis Park off season

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

A cold and windy day at the beach…. Constructed on the site of one of the first US naval air stations, the park was designed in 1936 by Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who envisioned Riis Park as a beach for … Continue reading →

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